Maria Ugolkova (russian: Мария Юрьевна Уголькова; born 18 July 1989) is a Swiss

swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...

specializing in the 200 metres medley. She currently represents

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

while competing as well as the SCUW club, based near Zurich, Switzerland.

Career

Ugolkova holds multiple Swiss Swimming National Records, including the 200 Freestyle, 200 Backstroke, 100 Butterfly, 100 Medley, 200 Medley, and many more relay records both in short course pools and long course pools. She also holds multiple Swiss Championship Records, Swiss Team Championship Records, French-speaking Region Swiss Records, and Central-east german-speaking Region Swiss Records. She participated at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, swimming the women's 4x100m freestyle relay, 100m freestyle, and 200m individual medley, representing the Swiss Olympic Team. She also swam in the 200m individual medley at the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow, and came third during the final, swimming a time of 2:10.83. First place went to

Katinka Hosszú Katinka Hosszú (; born 3 May 1989) is a Hungarian competitive swimmer specialized in individual medley events. She is a three-time Olympic champion and a nine-time long-course world champion. She is owner of a Budapest based swim school and swi ...

from Hungary and second went to

Ilaria Cusinato Ilaria Cusinato (born 5 October 1999) is an Italian swimmer. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in 200 m individual medley and 400 m individual medley. She competed in the women's 400 metre individual medley event at the 2018 Europea ...

of Italy.

Awards and honours

FINA FINA (french: Fédération internationale de natation, en, International Swimming Federation, link=yes) (to be renamed as World Aquatics by ) is the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for administer ...

, Top 10 Moments: 2021 Swimming World Cup (#8)"Swimming World Cup: Top 10 Moments"
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ugolkova, Maria 1989 births Living people Swiss female backstroke swimmers Swiss female butterfly swimmers Swiss female freestyle swimmers Swiss female medley swimmers Olympic swimmers of Switzerland Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Swimmers from Moscow Swiss people of Russian descent European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming European Championships (multi-sport event) bronze medalists Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Swiss women